ftime() Time Function ftime() Get the current time from the operating system #include <sys/timeb.h> ftime(tbp) struct timeb *tbp; ftime fills the structure timeb, which is pointed to tbp, with COHERENT's representation of the current time. timeb is defined in the header file timeb.h, as follows: struct timeb { time_t time; unsigned short millitm; short timezone; short dstflag; } The member time is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, 0h00m00s GMT. millitm is a count of milliseconds. timezone and dstflag are obsolete; they have been replaced by the environmen- tal variable TIMEZONE. ***** See Also ***** date, time, TIMEZONE, types.h COHERENT Lexicon Page 1